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Introduction

Thank you for purchasing our theme. We are delighted to have you as one of our valued customers, and we are committed to ensuring your satisfaction with our products.

License

When purchasing a theme from ThemeForest, you have two licensing options: Regular License and Extended License. If your end product, including the item, will be free to the end user, then a Regular License is what you need. An Extended License is required if the end user must pay to use the end product.

The billing, licensing terms, and process are handled by Envato, and we have no control over these aspects. Click here to learn more about what each license is for and which one to purchase.

Note

One license is valid for one domain only. If you want to use the theme on another domain, then you have to purchase another license.

License FAQ

If I need to use the theme on a second site, do I need a second license?

Yes. One theme purchase allows you to use it on one finished site. If you need to use it on a second site, you must purchase a second license.

Can I use the theme on a test site and then move it to a live site when finished?

Yes, you can. You can keep the theme on a test site to build it, then move it to the live site once you’re finished.

Can I keep a test and live sites with one Regular License purchase?

You can keep one test/staging website and one live website with one Regular License. Keep in mind that you must use the same domain.

Do I need a new license to use the theme on a WordPress multisite?

Since the multisite websites are located under one domain, it is allowed to use WordPress Multisite under a Regular License.

Support Policy

To receive technical support assistance, you must have a valid purchase code. To obtain the code, please navigate to your ThemeForest "Downloads" page and click on the theme download link. For further clarification check this guide.

Note

As authors of this theme, we do provide support only for the theme-related features. Envato clarifies item support here.

We do not provide support for additional customization, 3rd party plug-ins integration, or any other compatibility issues that might arise. Nevertheless, there is an exception that is only applied to the plug-in(s) we have developed and integrated ourselves.

If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, feel free to contact us or via email support@awaiken.com, We will respond as soon as possible (within 24 – 48 hours, usually faster). We are open from 10 am to 7 pm (IST), from Monday to Friday.

Installation

WordPress information

To install this WordPress Theme, you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. If you need help installing WordPress, follow the instructions in WordPress Codex. Below are all the useful links for WordPress information:

Server requirements

To use any of our WordPress themes, we recommend your host supports WordPress 6 or greater, PHP 7.4 or greater version (WordPress is now recommending PHP 7.4, read more), and MySQL 5.7 or greater version. For detailed PHP extension recommendations, see the Hosting Handbook.

We recommend that you contact your web hosting service provider to make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows:

  • max_execution_time 300
  • memory_limit 256M
  • post_max_size 32M
  • upload_max_filesize 32M

If you are running an unmanaged dedicated server or VPS, you should check your php.ini file. Alternatively, you can edit .htaccess file at the root of your website and add the following values:

  • php_value max_execution_time 300
  • php_value memory_limit 256M
  • php_value post_max_size 32M
  • php_value upload_max_filesize 32M

Setting these values will ensure you will not get error messages during the installation.

Theme Installation

Extract the zipped package downloaded from ThemeForest to your computer. In the extracted package you will find soare.zip which is the WordPress theme file.

Installing the theme can be done two ways. You can upload the theme ZIP file using the built in WordPress theme upload, or copy the files through an FTP client.

1) Using WordPress Theme Upload:

  1. Login to your WordPress admin.
  2. Navigate to Appearance > Themes and click on Add New and Upload Theme.
  3. Select the zipped theme file, soare.zip, and click Install Now button.
  4. After the successful installation, click on Activate or navigate to Appearance > Themes and click on Activate button to activate the newly installed theme.

2) Uploading via FTP:

  1. Log into your web server with FTP client software.
  2. Unzip the soare.zip file and ONLY use the extracted /soare theme folder.
  3. Upload the extracted soare theme folder into /wp-content/themes.
  4. Navigate to the Appearance > Themes tab and activate the theme.

Install the required plugins

After installing the theme, you need to install required plugins. You will see a notice for installing required plugins.

  1. Click on Begin installing plugins. Or go Appearance > Install Plugins. 
  2. You will see list of plugin need to be installed. Now, check all plugins & select bulk options install and click Apply.
  3. All plugin will be installed. Now, Click on Return to Required Plugins Installer.
  4. You need to active plugins. Now, check all plugins & select bulk options Active and click Apply.
  5. Click on Return to the Dashboard.

Child Theme

If you want to make changes to the theme's files and functions, we recommend installing a child theme. This ensures that your theme customizations stay in place after the theme update. If you are not planning to change the core theme files, you are free to skip this chapter.

Note

Install the child theme before importing the demo data. Otherwise, all of your theme options will be reset.

A child theme is installed the same way you install a parent theme. Locate the soare-child.zip file in the theme package and upload it via the WordPress admin panel. Alternatively, you can unzip it and upload it via FTP (see main theme installation chapter).

Import Demo content

Our theme includes a simple One-click demo content installation, which allows your site to look exactly as on the theme demo.

  1. Go to the admin area  Appearance > Import Demo Data.
  2. Now, Click on Import Demo button and then on next step click on Continue & Import.

Note

If the demo has been imported successfully but the styles are missing, please navigate to Elementor > Tools and click on the Regenerate Files & Data button.

Theme Options

This section provides an overview of the theme options configuration. It will help you get started quickly by introducing the theme structure and settings.

Typography & Colors

Accessing the Site Settings panel

Each Elementor option that can be applied across your site is a part of the Site Settings, which are centrally located within the Elementor Editor. By utilizing the Site Settings panel, you can ensure consistent color schemes and typography styles throughout your entire website, enhancing its overall visual appeal.

  1. Edit any page with Elementor.
  2. Click the hamburger menu icon in the upper left corner of the Elementor Widget Panel.
  3. Select Site Settings from the menu.

Change a global colors:

  1. Open the Site Settings panel.
  2. Click Global Colors.
  3. Go to a font label called Primary (it’s listed under System Colors).
  4. Click the color swatch to open the Color Picker and select the color you want.
  5. Click on Update button to save.

Change a global fonts:

  1. Open the Site Settings panel.
  2. Click Global Fonts.
  3. Go to the font labeled Primary (it’s listed under System Fonts).
  4. Select the Pencil icon.
  5. Click Update button to save.

Note

Changing Global Fonts and Colors impacts all instances of the selected font and color across your website.

Following Theme Options are located in Appearance > Customize.

1) Logo & Site Identity

  1. Logo: Select your site’s logo image from the media library
  2. Title: Enter the name of your site.
  3. Tagline: Enter a short tagline or description of your site
  4. Site Icon: Select your site’s favicon image from the media library

2) Homepage Settings

The settings of this group are responsible for selecting the way to display a homepage (front page), as a blog stream or a static one and specifying the pages to be set as a static homepage and as a posts page.

3) General Options

  1. Preloader: Display preloader while the page is loading.
  2. Tagline: Display Tagline after logo. (It will only work if the header is being run from the theme file.)
  3. Magic Cursor: Show Magic Cursor.
  4. Smooth Scrolling: Enhance user experience with a seamless, smooth scrolling effect.
  5. Preloader icon: If you want to change the current loading icon, select it here.
  6. Header Background Image: Header background image is intended for pages that are not created using Elementor.

4) Projects Options

  1. Project Page Archive Title: Enter the project list page title here.
  2. Header Background Image: Header background image for portfolio archive and single pages that are not created using Elementor.
  3. Project Archive Page Layout: Choose between full-width or With Sidebar layout.
  4. Project Single Layout: Choose between full-width or With Sidebar layout.

5) Blog Options

  1. Blog Page Title: Enter the blog page home title here.
  2. Header Background Image: Header background image for blog archive and single page.
  3. Archive Page Layout: Choose between full-width or With Sidebar layout.
  4. Blog Single Layout: Choose between full-width or With Sidebar layout.
  5. Social Sharing: Choose the social network you want to display in the social share box into the post single page.

Website Edit

Notes:

Our theme is built exclusively for Elementor.

For those new to Elementor, it's highly recommended to explore their knowledge base at https://elementor.com/getting-started/.

Header

1. Theme Default

The default theme comes with a header, which is perfect for simpler websites that don't require extensive customization.

2. Elementor Header builder

Edit the imported header : When importing demo content, the header are automatically included. To customize its style or rearrange items:

  1. Go to your site Appearance > Header.

  2. Click the Edit with Elementor button to start customizing.

Header Menu

To modify menu items, navigate to Appearance > Menus > select the Header Menu item from the dropdown> edit menu items and save your changes.

Footer

1. Theme Default

The default theme comes with a footer, which is perfect for simpler websites that don't require extensive customization.

Footer Menu

To modify menu items, navigate to Appearance > Menus > select the footer Menu from the dropdown> edit menu items and save your changes. Following ares the footer menus.

  1. Footer Services Menu

Footer news letter form

To modify form, navigate to Contact > Contact Forms select the Footer news letter form.

Page Edit

Notes:

Our theme is built exclusively for Elementor.

For those new to Elementor, it's highly recommended to explore their knowledge base at https://elementor.com/getting-started/.

  1. Go to your site Pages > All Pages.

  2. Click the Edit with Elementor button to start editing.

Service Page Sidebar Edit

  1. Go to your site Templates > Saved Templates you will see Service sidebar. Click the Edit with Elementor to edit.

Projects

You can manage projects from admin area > Projects.

  • Project list: Default project list page URL is https://your-site-url/projects, to change slug use the following code. Add the following code to functions.php (Recommended to use child theme) 

    add_filter( 'awaiken_portfolio_slug', 'awaiken_portfolio_slug_rewrite', 10);
function awaiken_portfolio_slug_rewrite() {
	return 'xyz-slug';
}
  • Project category page: Default project category page URL is https://your-site-url/project-category/category-name, to change slug use the following code. Add the following code to functions.php (Recommended to use child theme) 

    add_filter( 'awaiken_portfolio_category_slug', 'awaiken_portfolio_category_slug_rewrite', 10);
function awaiken_portfolio_category_slug_rewrite() {
	return 'xyz-slug';
}
  • Project page edit: Click the Edit with Elementor button to start editing.

Note

If you change the URL of a project, make sure to update the permalink from the Settings > Permalinks section.

Theme Update

This section is useful if you received the notification that a new version of the theme is available.

Note: Backup the current version of the theme before you go ahead with the update.

There are a couple of different ways to update our WordPress theme to the latest version:

1) Install the WordPress Envato Market plugin

Once installed, activated, and setup, the Envato Market plugin will display a notice in your WordPress dashboard when an update is available. To set up:

  1. Download the ZIP file from here.
  2. Login to your WordPress Dashboard
  3. Go to Plugins > Add New
  4. Click Upload Plugin at the top
  5. Upload the envato-market.zip file
  6. Once installed, click Activate Plugin
  7. Visit the new Envato Market menu item
  8. You should see a screen similar to the bellow. The very first step is to create an Envato API token. To do this, click on the generate a personal token link (highlighted in red bellow).

  9. If you’re already logged into your Envato account you’ll be taken to the screen bellow (otherwise you will be prompted to login first before being redirected to this page). On this screen you can see what the Envato Market plugin is requesting permission to access via your Envato account (Envato sites, the ability to download your items, a list of your purchases and verification of your purchases).

  10. To proceed give your token a name, check the box that you have read and agree to the terms and then click the green button to create your token.
  11. Once your token is created you will see a green success screen. Copy your token code (this is very important since Envato doesn’t store a copy of the token for you), check to confirm that you’ve copied it and click the white button that you got it.
  12. Now go back to your WordPress installation and paste in your Envato API token then click save.

  13. Once your token is saved and validated your page will refresh to show your Envato Market landing page with added tabs for your items. The added tab(s) display all of your theme and plugin purchases as well as their version numbers and quick links to the theme and author pages.

2) Update using WordPress uploader:

  1. Log into your ThemeForest account and navigate to Downloads tab. Find the theme and download Installable WordPress file only.

  2. Log into your WordPress website and go to Appearance > Themes.
  3. Activate a default WordPress theme. Delete the older version of your theme and re-upload the new WordPress Installable files that you have downloaded from ThemeForest during the 1st step.
  4. Once it is uploaded, activate the theme.

    IMPORTANT!

    If you're using a child theme, do not activate the newly uploaded parent theme.

2) Update via FTP:

  1. Log into your ThemeForest account and get the last version of the theme as described above.
  2. Connect to your server using desktop client software (we recommend Filezilla and CyberDuck).
  3. Go to /wp-content/themes directory
  4. Remove/rename existing folder with old theme files.
  5. Unpack theme installable files downloaded from ThemeForest and upload them to the themes folder.

Changelog

Version 1.0.0

Initail Release